Manuel Rivas

Vermeers Milkmaid

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Produktbeschreibung

The theme of non-communication in human relationships in a world saturated with information is the connecting thread in this collection of stories. The mystery of light in Vermeer's famous painting inspires a writer; a travelling lingerie salesman is helped by a rock musician as he waits for his runaway son; an emigrant describes his experiences in Havana to his nephew; a thief killed while robbing a bank recounts his love story. Non-communication in a world saturated with information is the connecting theme in this lively collection of stories by the author of The Carpenter's Pencil. The everyday lives of Rivas's unforgettable characters may be desperate and harsh filled with pain and solitude but humour and tenderness always redeem them. Vermeer's Milkmaid includes the three stories that comprise Butterfly's Tongue upon which Jos- Luis Cuerda's acclaimed film of the same title is based.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 147g
• ISBN-13: 9780099447078
• ISBN-10: 009944707X
• Artikelnr.: 22262673

Autorenporträt

Manuel Rivas was born in Coruña, Galicia, in 1957. He graduated in Media Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid and then worked as a journalist in the press, radio and television. As an author, he is best known for his seven novels and six collections of short stories. Several volumes have been published in English: The Carpenter's Pencil (2001, novel), In the Wilderness (2003, novel), Books Burn Badly (2010, novel), Vermeer's Milkmaid (2002, stories), Butterfly's Tongue (2000, stories). He is also a highly-regarded poet and essayist. All of his literary work is written in Galician. An edition of Rivas' poetry in Jonathan Dunne's English translation, From Unknown to Unknown (2009), brought together eighty of his poems, drawn from the collected edition published in Galician as Do descoñecido ao descoñecido in 2003, and Shearsman Books published Lorna Shaughnessy's translation of his The Disappearance of Snow in 2012. Some of his work has been filmed in Spain: La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly's Tongue), based on 3 interwoven stories contained in his collection Que me queres, amor? (Vermeer's Milkmaid in the English language edition), directed by José Luis Cuerda, and El lápiz del carpintero (The Carpenter's Pencil), directed by Antón Reixa.